But heavy rains are complicating further efforts to reach these areas by land and the weather forecast for the region calls for more storms in the coming days.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Clay proposed that the western border of Texas be changed to give New Mexico most of the land disputed by them.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Americans can also adopt a burro removed from the wild by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

The gold seekers quickly learned that most of the valuable areas of land had already been claimed by others.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Some said it was a plot by members of the stock market to ruin farmers and seize their land.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But nature was cruel. By the nineteen twenties, erosion from winds and weather had removed a large part of the land.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Some people worry that officials could take their land if it becomes polluted by oil in a storm.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

But California officials recently registered objects left by the first men to land on the moons surface.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

The president also showed his independence by investigating gifts of public land that the government had made to the railroad, wood and cattle industries.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Much of this paper money was used by business speculators to buy land from the government.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Deforestation is mainly caused by the cutting down of tropical forests to provide land for agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Over the years,he invested income from his acting company by purchasing land and other property.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Pandas are also threatened by a loss of land and illegal hunting.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

This park was developed on the same land used by the colonists.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

VOA: special.2010.07.05